skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few things:

1. Congrats on launching!

2. You have an explanation video hidden somewhere on the site (like literally I saw it then got back to the homepage and couldn't recall which link I had clicked to find it). Having that front and center would really help.

2a. Don't use the robot voiceover for the video. If you're not comfortable doing it yourself find somebody on Fiverr.com to do it for you.

3. It would be very helpful to have some extremely simple examples of what you are providing. Along the lines of: "Jim wants to boost sales, instead of hiring a costly salesperson he can request getting leads." (which is something I think you do).

Looks like you're off to a good start.
David Courtwright used a slightly different version of it to describe the Vietnam war: "we were not in Vietnam for 10 years, but for one year 10 times."
You just asked a non-sequitur question. Patrick said, "consider carefully what you mean by success; one measure is geek status ranking, another is financial success". You responded by saying "show me your code" --- in other words, by implying that there is only geek status ranking, which makes no sense as a response.

When you grok what Patrick is doing, the programming angle on it makes more sense. On HN, he's best known for Bingo Card Creator (that's the work he has the easiest time talking about). Here is the right way to think about Bingo Card Creator: it is an experiment in how much engineering effort you can apply to marketing as opposed to product features and what the payoff on that is. The engineering in BCC is invisible to users; the product itself is "hello world", hooked up to a random number generator. The result of the experiment: he matched his salary with it, and then left his full-time development job, because 5-10 hours a week of effort was paying him better than the 60 he spent as a salaryman.

Also: get past the idea that you can gauge people's skills from their Github profiles. Nerds are in love with that idea because it sure would be nice if it were true. I've been a professional developer, mostly in C, since I was ~17 years old. Only a tiny fraction of the lines of code I've written --- and virtually none of my favorite lines --- are publishable on a site like Github.
There seem to have been many of these horror stories over the past couple of years. And especially if you're a small business, not having access to your funds is just completely unacceptable.
Because that would require real work and collaboration and actually move the web forward.
I'm thinking to be really secure, each installation will have to have multiple rivals watching each other.

A Cisco to watch all of the packets produced by the Huawei and a Huawei to watch all of the packets produced by the Cisco. Any packet they don't agree on, gets dropped. Welcome the geopolitical AND gate.
The faster PayPal dies the better, those guys are real scumbags, imagine if a bank could just freeze your account like these people do, worse than that they are not even regulated like a bank!

Would you trust your money to a private company that acts like a bank but is not regulated like one?
As the article surmised, one of the engines did indeed fail and the craft corrected for the failure.

"Falcon 9 detected an anomaly on one of the nine engines and shut it down. As designed, the flight computer then recomputed a new ascent profile in realtime to reach the target orbit…"

http://www.parabolicarc.com/2012/10/07/falcon-9-suffers-engi...
Here you are: http://ask.metafilter.com/62762/What-is-the-source-of-this-q...
BMW goes beyond a warranty -- they cover all recommended maintenance items for those first four years (oil, brakes, windshield wipers, inspections).
Out of curiosity, why the animus for w3schools?
WebPlatform Blog: One Small Step
Macedonian Internet Blackout
Square's security anti-patterns
> So, Deutsch und Spanisch lernen ist gut für mich? Tolle
> Nachrichten, dies ist nicht eine Zeitverschwendung!

Let's nitpick to make your brain grow even faster: German doesn't have "so" in the causal or consequential sense. It's more of a demonstrative or temporal signifier. What you'd use here is "also":

> Deutsch und Spanisch lernen ist *also* gut fuer mich?
4Sync - 15GB Free, Syncing Cloud Storage - now out of bega
You should emphasize that it's a landing page service. Check out LaunchRock, they've had some time and practice in this space and have a very succinct description: http://launchrock.com/.

Also second what Colin said. It's so fucking boring when people post asking for feedback on a "coming soon" page or whatever, whether they wasted weeks hand-carving it or used a service to create it for them.
Mozilla ia a sponsor, but they also have a notable reference of their own. For instance, the Javascript section is my go-to reference:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript

Click "DOCS" at the top to see other topics.
Indeed. These days, money in a savings account has a negative real rate of return.
Wait, the "latest" theory of everything? Topology's been in use in String Theory since, well, since it was developed, along with M-Theory, et al. Not to mention some parts of the standard model, but it's all by no means a new or "recent" discovery.
A loop is based on a conditional jump (aka. a flow control statement in imperative langs) which makes all the difference. The problem with jumps (is usually called a jump, purely arbitrary jump) is that they are arbitrary: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4627730
It's lazy and unprofessional.
Why is this site not responsive?
Here's how the website looks on a iPhone https://twitter.com/lukew/status/255327150863941632/photo/1/...
thx! Btw, to anyone who wants to try it out: there's no signup needed.

Just start a new document from any of the Templates or create a copy from a landing page (e.g. https://www.workio.com/b/Y2NlMTY5MDYt/security-assessment ) by clicking the "Customize and order" button.
Thanks Michael, we're working hard on Topic / Industry specific landing pages, where it's just the video, 5 best products (without the detour of you having to customize them by hand) and 5 great people providing them.

Voiceover was Voicebunny or Bodalgo, very close decision, but there are definitely artifacts from the Mercedes GPS she did left over, but you (gladly) haven't heard the timing test we spoke...
My ML320 has gone through three sets of rotors and 4 sets of pads in just under 70K miles. About $1500 for each rotor set replacement. I even tried the aftermarket Zimmerman rotors and they were no more long-lived than the OEM rotors.

An S63 costs a lot more to maintain than an ML. Amongst AMG-tuned MBZ owners "AMG" is said to mean "All Money Gone."

By comparison, my Lexus LS has gone through a single set of rotors and an additional set of front pads in 130,000 miles (although it did cost me $6700 at my 90K service[!]).

$600/year doesn't seem that unreasonable to me.
> being financially successful and extremely competent programmer are two different things

I'm going far than this and say are two OPPOSITE things. Being good a 1 thing is hard. Good at 2 things? 3 things? Rare. That is way is easy to have Teslas, but not Bells...

I know a lot of developers in the latin america community, and mi city (www.clubdelphi.com). Here, is VERY rare to find the super-rich, mega-startup anomaly (yes, it is). We can do the hard work, have competent skills and still survive. I don't see highly tech people being good at the art of make money (the lack of social skills hurt a lot!), and the time necessary to code + doing business is a big drag.

I have a partner that help in the sales side. Without him, I can't see how I can code and get client in a steady way (the economic realities here are differente to USA: Have FACE TO FACE is DAMM IMPORTANT!, internet-only business? close to impossible), and I'm lucky for that. A lot of my peers are code monkeys, even the good ones...
No idea. I am sure it is astronomically small though.
Not fixed wing like the Avro you're talking about. From the article it sounds like a different craft entirely:

"...Project 1794 is a flying saucer capable of “between Mach 3 and Mach 4,” (2,300-3,000 mph) a service ceiling of over 100,000 feet (30,500m), and a range of around 1,000 nautical miles ...

...the supersonic flying saucer would propel itself by rotating an outer disk at very high speed, taking advantage of the Coandă effect. Maneuvering would be accomplished by using small shutters on the edge of the disc ..."
It's still a valid observation though. People don't drive to another store to save 10 dollars on a 500 dollar couch but they will drive all the way across town to save 10 cents a gallon on gas.

This isn't rational: they're clearly not buying the 100 gallons of gas for the gas-drive to make sense.
What someone else will pay me for one?
HyperJSON
I've already a nice place in West End but I'm just happy to see that there are other HN users in Brisbane! It's usually just Sydney I see mentioned. Good luck finding someone!
I was thinking I'd start with a "places most of us have heard of" (Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, etc.) vs. "everywhere else" comparison. I'm at somewhere over 100 replies at this point, so I imagine I'll have enough data for that sort of comparison to be meaningful.
And/or just 1 iteration of the music.
I get it, but I don't think people outside of the startup community (armchair or otherwise) will. For example, I know successful business owners that would stare at me funny if I talked to them about "conversions." That type of lingo doesn't come up. So if the recent feedback is from people like that, I wouldn't be surprised.
So you're saying that this ISN'T just an elaborate cover-up to explain actual UFO sightings?
People would generally only call it a waste of money when things don't work. If this had produced (or is producing and we don't know about it) great advances --- even the greatest advances, we could call it "the greatest use of money".

It's strange how usefulness is sometimes defined as the end-result usefulness ... something they had no way of measuring until it was done, especially with something new.
I read that; the answer seems to be "we're not sure".
"because it was unfair that students at other schools didn't have access to the unusually tasty offerings"

Sweden: welcome to socialism. Everything has to be equally bad.
The Return Of Myspace: Company Pres Roger Mincheff Aims To Make History Again
Yes, high performance brake pads do make black dust.
Android has been doing this for a while, it's Apple that's a slow adopter.
...given that Mobile Safari has been around longer than the app store I'm not sure that's strictly true. And let's be honest, Android support for direct camera access through getUserMedia is pretty ropey at best. Neither platform is at a state where it's usable by the masses.
Does anyone know if filepicker.io has plans to support this? Currently file uploading in mobile safari is rather underwhelming
There are 9 Exemptions to that Executive Order. These exemptions allow the government to extend the declassification window indefinitely. Number 8 in particular is very broad:
(8) reveal information that would seriously impair current national security emergency preparedness plans or reveal current vulnerabilities of systems, installations, or infrastructures relating to the national security;

I don't think it would apply to this saucer as it is not a "current system" but it basically extends the time limit on any fielded system.
Thanks.

> Instead of using prototypes and functions shared among all instances of the same type of object, it uses closures for each instance.

So, is this generally considered a poor practice? I usually only use prototypes and shared functions when I am going to be instantiating the same type of object many times (when doing lots of vector math, for example).
Supposedly, San Francisco has reached "Epidemic" scale in flu outbreaks... How is that categorized? What's considered an epidemic? I live in San Francisco and have yet to notice any peers with the flu.
I would agree with that. Programming languages are more about logic and modeling (algorithms and data structures).

Learning a human language uses a part of the brain which has evolved for that purpose. It not only requires learning thousands of words, and mapping them to concepts, but also learning how they fit together (syntax) and change (morphology). And this needs to be done in real time, both recognition and production.
Interview with the author of Contiki, an OS for the 'Internet of Things'
Google-gson - A Java library to convert JSON to Java objects and vice-versa
I think facebook is the solution most people use now.
The World's Biggest Hedge Fund is owned by Apple
Because in the 1960s, sorting records was what computers spent most of their time doing.

At this point, it's mostly a "because that's how we've always introduced algorithms and complexity" thing.
Could this be related to the recent post about software estimates?
Those engineers who designed this system can be proud. The worst possible problem occurred and the backup plans worked out perfectly.
Optimizing MongoDB Compound Indexes
and part of LI is it cannot be detected whether it is enabled or not.

Interestingly, I've heard that although the LI is supposed to be transparent, it's typically very apparent to network operators when their kit is actively involved in LI, as the CPU utilization shows telltale signs.
The biggest reason UX/UI projects will fail in 2013: Talent
It's a "Computer Science software developers should know" exam.
Facebook challenges Pinterest with new feature "Collections"
It's always been biased, but during SCO / IBM, it seemed like there was more fact-based reporting based on the exhibits from the case. This is the first time that I remember them going after a person, especially one that was part of the court proceedings (jury), and not a plaintiff/defendant.

It seems very hypocritical to go after the jury foreman so voraciously when PJ was so protective of her private life.

I'm sure they published things about McBride, but at least he was part of the suit.
Nice, but what is "bega"?
Ah yes, the confusing German "so" :)

Thank you!
Last Year Google and Apple Spent More on Patents than R&D
Lion's Lair Gala Winners #HamOnt was the Biggest Winner
This is supposed to look like a reference documentation as opposed to a collection of specific questions and answers.
Unless the linked article is incorrect, only authorized employees are able to edit it. So like, it's an article, why not read it?

[my bad, it looks like maybe anybody can edit it after registering.]
At the time it made sense to go after Microsoft for bundling because the PC was the only gateway to the internet. Now almost every device has access to the internet, so its a much even playing field.
I don't believe extraterrestrial spacecraft have ever visited Earth.

I'm not aware of any instance where extraterrestrial technology was used in an aircraft or to push the envelope for military flight technology.

In fact, much of it has a publicly-traceable lineage, if people would just dig. I'm thinking of low observability (stealth) technology, the latest RADAR/LIDAR tech, airframe designs, ram/pulse/pulse detonation jets, and so on. I admit some of it looks like magic on first glance, but this stuff was designed by human beings who were much smarter than me.
These questions test the students' familiarity of the basic CS topics taught during the previous year. It's a test on the subject matters of the CS courses. If you don't use some of these stuff over the years, you will forget about them. I forgot the properties of the bipartite graph and have to look them up.

This reminds me of those trigonometry proofs we learnt in high school. I remember I could go through those complicate trig proofs with ease back then. Now beside some basic sine/consine stuff due to work, I completely forgot about the rest of them since there wasn't a chance to use any of them.

Basic course level knowledge are good to learn. Just the test needs to be relevant and in context.
> We know the engine did not explode, because we continued to receive data from it.

Uh, they say the engine did not explode. The failed engine shut down and vented gasses ruptured the engine fairing. How about someone change the inaccurate headline? "That smooth SpaceX launch? Turns out one of the engines exploded"
Yeah, but that's built into the cost of purchase or lease, no?
It is not, of course, about github. It is much simpler. When some scientist met, say, mathematicians, it is very normal to ask - show me what you have done. Or the same thing with writers - Oh, you're writer? What did you wrote.

This thread was about programming, and the given comment was mere a self-assertion. So, it is OK to assert oneself if one wants to. But, show us, then, what you have done.
Customer Development: Getting Around the Bullshit Yes
They see that as a purchase or startup fee rather than a banking fee. When they say no banking fees they probably mean the fees that traditional banks nickel and dime people with like monthly maintenance fees. It lets them slime their way to a holier looking position in the press releases.
Bad, Better, Best in IT
The results are a representative sample of the US Internet population.
Actually my understanding from talking to their first software developer is that their systems are written in C++ and they do not use exceptions. Ever.

If that surprises you, consider that the default behavior of an uncaught exception, anywhere in your code, no matter how minor, is to crash your program. While you're in flight, the last thing that you want to see is a software crash. Having software encounter an unanticipated state might or might not destroy the rocket. Having your control system spontaneously cut out in flight definitely will destroy the rocket.
I suspect that if it applies in any way, programming itself would be considered the language and the particular programming language you use would be more akin to a dialect.
Indeed, very true. I guess it's very Apple like to have a closed system.
Sometimes I think the people who designed these kinds of saucer crafts actually believed in extra-terrestrial UFOs and were on a mission to try and duplicate what they envisioned their technology would be.
Ask HN: How would you add transparency to the dating market?
Is it just Facebook? Are there additional factors? Money is obvious. Power? FB covers social circle... What are other things. Are there any female opinions on this?
Fixing intermittent DNS problems on Ubuntu 12.04
Yeah, certain types of land are zoned for multi-residence accommodations, and many RV parks are not too strict on their guidelines (higher-end RV parks are often very strict, and often only permit diesel/class A vehicles). Many lots of land are cheap enough that the cost could be split easily (in many remote areas, land can be bought for (literally) a few dollars per acre).
Thanks for the write up -- I'll try it the next time I travel to China!
the replay-mode of the editor just rocks :)
I'm offering consulting-serives about Facebook-platform there, + you can ask me a free question about platform as well :)

https://www.workio.com/u/NTU0MT/michael-kamleitner
I want to. I do have a ton of for-the-love projects which seemed impossible when I started, that i've learned a lot from, failure by failure. I've even got an app I'm building in Laravel (and this is the last you'll likely hear about it.) Unfortunately with where I'm at right now it's just been scutwork that puts gas in the car.

I might even take a cs course this year assuming it's possible to get the loans. I'm still paying off an art degree though.

By the way never get an art degree.
Looking for a good programmer
Hi guys, I got a project going on and I started working on the graphics designs and I would need a great programmer/partner. What are your tips for that?

Thanks!
When we already have so many repos of content, why another initiative towards making a new one? There is HTML5Rocks, MDN and so many others.
When pushing the envelope, anything better than catastrophic failure is success. That an engine exploded and both primary and secondary missions were still completed is fantastic.
For me personally I'd like to see something that would facilitate a date... something that the girl could creep all my information and then instead of the tedious dance of "courtship" its just " Okay, I like you so we're going to do X "
Agreed. Now if they would cease support for IE<9 on the desktop and for their mobile browsers pre-WP7, that'd be great. Offering a standards compliant browser for Windows XP (combined with a mandatory upgrade) would help as well. Given that IE9 depends on elements that were introduced in Vista that'll be quite an undertaking, so offering a browser choice menu for IE users on XP would be easiest.

Sadly, none of the above is likely to happen.
Samsung releases Galaxy Note II source code, gives modders a big fish to fry
That could also be Java.
Guarantee an Interview With These Resume Writing Tips
From it's coverage, it seems that Groklaw and not Samsung has actually lost the case and every one of its articles on this case has set out to right that "wrong". So now, unless the document specifically directs using the exact words "Copy the iPhone" it actually says the opposite ?
Now I can say I vomit at groklow's general direction without any reservation.
What does it mean when you can't answer the question properly and said "4.5"?
I think it's fairly well proven by now that praising children for, and reinforcing, hard work and persistence, has much better results than splitting them into smart and stupid.
This is horribly broken on my phone, using the stock browser on Android 2.3. Web platform indeed.
Indeed, one does not need a CS degree to be a good programmer. This makes sense, cause somehow good CS degrees still seem to produce some people who can't program.
458 Hackathons In The United States In 2012
Travel on Land at 1000mph
If you've thought so little about the subject that you don't even understand why there is a fundamental difference between who designs gear and who manufactures it perhaps it's not an ideal topic to make sweeping statements about.
And never will. As if "try/catch" was involved the rocket would've just failed, rather than "continue/resume".
Tim Berners-Lee:
Web Developer

http://imgur.com/itWft

A strikingly accurate description of his contribution!
Where do Money, Power & Ignorance meet? TERM SHEET
The feedback was from techy people, but not necessarily people who know the ins and outs of startups.

That's a good point though, perhaps if I just told the end user 'Probably would work' rather than 24% overall conversion rate it might be more user friendly.
It's things like this that come to mind whenever someone speaks about how Apple really cares about their customers and making their lives better. They're a technology company. They care about money.
Two things:

1. As the researcher you can set a range of validity for open-ended numeric if you know it ahead of time. We recommend doing this.

2. The system automatically detects outliers in all cases and puts them in a separate bucket to reduce noise.

An example of open-ended numeric for pricing is here:

https://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/view?survey=...
In this case, XKCD gets it wrong -- actual tinfoil hat people spell it "Nazi's".
That one seems totally backwards to me. Experienced programmers should be able to read and understand more technical documentation such as language specs or RFCs and use it to figure out the answers to their problems. Inexperienced programmers are the ones that sak for help at the first sign of trouble.
Paypal security seems to be a perpetual case of the cure being worse than the disease.

They're chasing away the real business along with the fraud.
Does anyone happen to know the contractors involved with the primary computers in the Shuttles? I was told they used a newer iteration of the Boeing ACUs similar to what used to be in the B-52Hs for their Offensive Avionics System. Did they sit on a MIL-STD-1553 bus variant? Any truth to that?
http://w3fools.com/